It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.